June 1S91 .] 



PSYCHE. 



93 



anterior claw on one or many of the 

 feet shows a tendency to division, being 

 in some instances cleft on the posterior 

 outer edge from a little below the tip 

 one-sixth the distance to the base of the 

 claws. Mr. E. P. Austin first drew 

 my attention to this feature, and informs 

 me that he has noticed it in a consider- 

 able number of specimens he has ex- 

 amined. Nearly every specimen I have 

 examined shows some trace of it, from 

 a tubercular enlargement of the spot 

 whence the bifurcation proceeds, up to 

 the amount I have mentioned above. 

 Half of the four specimens in the Harris 

 collection in the Boston society of nat- 

 ural history have it. 



Trichius piger Fabr. (PI. 2, rig. 4). 

 A right hind leg in which the femur is 

 normal ; the tibia is slightly shortened 

 and thickened, but terminated by the 

 usual two spines ; the tarsal joints are 

 curved rather strongly upward, and in- 

 stead of being uniformly long, slender, 

 and gradually thickened at the apex, 

 are (except the last) uniformly and 

 nearly equally short and stout, nearly 

 triangular, with the apex prominent be- 

 neath ; they are scarcely longer than 

 their extreme height at apex. The last 

 joint is conical, truncated, a little smaller 

 only at tip than at base, about twice as 

 long as it is broad at the base, and very 

 slightly curved outwards ; it bears at 



the tip a pair of scarcely divaricating 

 claws a little shorter than the normal ; 

 but in addition to this it also bears at 

 the very base of the joint, above, two 

 more pairs of claws ; one pair so near 

 the base as to appear at first sight to be 

 attached to the penultimate joint, a little 

 smaller than, and facing in the .same 

 direction as the apical pair, and also 

 scarcely divaricate ; the other, just be- 

 yond, also scarcely divaricate, larger 

 than either of the other pairs, but still 

 smaller than the normal claws, and fac- 

 ing in an opposite direction to the other 

 two pairs; apparently the claws are all 

 freely moveable. 



The specimen was obtained at Med- 

 ford, Mass., by the late Mr. F. G. San- 

 born, and is now in the museum of the 

 Boston society of natural history. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2. 



i. Right hind leg of Galerita janus. 



2. Left antenna of Amara musculus. 



3. Left mid leg of Chloenius tomen- 

 tosa. 



4. Right hind leg of Trichius piger. 



5. Right antenna of Telephones ro- 

 tundicollis. 



6. Right antenna of Polyphylla de- 

 cemlineata. 



7. Right fore leg of Dyschirius sp. 



8. Left midleg of Lachnosterna fusca. 



Personal Notes. — Mr. C.W. Woodworth, 

 recently entomologist to the Agricultural 

 experiment station at Fayetteville, Ark., has 

 accepted a similar position at the station in 

 Berkeley, Cal., and has already moved to his 

 new post. 



Mr. Theo. D. A. Cockerell, of England, 

 formerly secretary of the Colorado biological 

 association, has been appointed curator of 

 the museum in Kingston, Jamaica. After 

 June 24 his address will be Institute of 

 Jamaica, Kingston, W. I. 



